Club Member Dick Osgood is Featured in Minnesota Waters Spring Issue for his Secchi Disk Award

Osgood Receives Secchi Disk Award

On Oct. 27,2011 MinnesotaWaters’ Board of Directors member Dick Osgood was given the Secchi Disk Award by the North American Lake Management Society (NALMS).

The Secchi Disk Award is given annually to recognize and honor the NALMS member who has made the most significant contributions to the goals and objectives of the Society.  Osgood was awarded for his dedicated service to NALMS. He has logged substantial NALMS committee time serving as Policy Committee Chair, Treasurer, President-elect, President and Past President.  As Treasurer he was instrumental in significantly improving the accounting practices and moving NALMS into a better financial state (from “in the red” to “in the black”) working with NALMS staff to cut costs and increase revenues. He was very concerned with Board development, strategic planning and put a lot of effort into moving NALMS from a heavily volunteer-run organization to one that now has great staff who put forth a great effort to keep NALMS running. 

In his private work, Osgood is a NALMS certified lake manager and is well known and respected as a lake consultant in high demand nationally. He is very involved in his community, serving as Executive Director of the Lake Minnetonka Association and statewide as a member of the Minnesota Waters’ Board of Directors.

We congratulate Dick on his award and thank him for his continued service to our water resources.
(Our Excelsior Rotary club also offers its congratulations!)